obverse

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Facing or turned toward the observer: the obverse side of a statue.

adj. Serving as a counterpart or complement.

n. The side of a coin, medal, or badge that bears the principal stamp or design.

n. The more conspicuous of two possible alternatives, cases, or sides: the obverse of this issue.

n. Logic The counterpart of a proposition obtained by exchanging the affirmative for the negative quality of the whole proposition and then negating the predicate: The obverse of "Every act is predictable” is "No act is unpredictable.”

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Turned or facing toward the observer.

adj. Corresponding; complementary.

n. The heads side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that has the principal design.

n. The double negative of a statement e.g. All men are mortal => No man is immortal

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.

n. The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.

n. Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Turned toward (one); facing: opposed to reverse, and applied in numismatics to that side of a coin or medal which bears the head or more important inscription or device.

In botany, having the base narrower than the top, as a leaf.

n. In numismatics, the face or principal side of a coin or medal, as distinguished from the other side, called the reverse. See numismatics, and cuts under maravedi, medallion, and merk.

n. Hence A second aspect of the same fact; a correlative proposition identically implying another.

n. Specifically, in logic, the contranominal of the inverse of a proposition.

While its obverse is sharper than that of the Husak S-12, its strike and surface quality are not quite as impressive as the Husak S-12 1793 Liberty Cap. Even so, as it is so difficult to find 1793 Liberty Caps that grade Fine-15 or higher, this Very Fine grade Holmes S-12 is particularly appealing for a 1793 Liberty Cap and I would recommend it.

The obverse is true of Vietnam, which over a longer period saw 9 million men in uniform, less than a third of the draft-eligible males in the pool, selected out largely on the basis of education or lack of it.

On the one hand, the sovereign power to achieve the common peace and defence is the product of a positive calculation by which individuals “confer” their natural power, in exchange for the benefit of security; the obverse is the negative calculation whereby each individual limits his natural power over things in consideration of an equally tangible “fear of punishment” by the sovereign power.